 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution 1 By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution if to preserve slavery or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...15y general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a lite, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution if to preserve slavery or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Politics and government - 1891 - 770 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wroug I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1892 - 790 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assume this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...Hodges, April 4, 1864, N. and H., vi. 430 ; and see Lincoln to Chase, Sept. 2, 1863; ibid. 434. be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political parties - 1893 - 760 pages
...preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must bo protected, yet often a limb must bo amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely...could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1897 - 792 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By Renerai law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by In-coming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the, nation.... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1893 - 776 pages
...and limh must he rr>tccted, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is n*.-vr wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures,...lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of iliConstitntion through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong I a.snmed this ground, and now... | |
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Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional... 
